There are brands that look old and then there are brands that are old. Put Dockers—the brand Levi Strauss introduced in the eighties to consolidate its century-old khaki business—in the latter category. The company is taking strides to bring a little cool in, primarily by drawing on its most valuable asset: a vault's worth of vintage Levi's samples. Its latest heritage collection, shown at Pitti Uomo, is among the best we've seen. These are clothes with long backstories, of the page-turning variety. For example: Work shirts and khakis are made of Galey & Lord twill—a lighter version of the Cramerton cloth developed in 1931 for WWII uniforms—and woven on the original looms. (The lighter version? That's thanks to an official request from the U.S. Quartermaster, who had to deal with the climate of the South Pacific theater.) Trivia like this should make for a great book someday. Until then, we'll just take the clothes themselves, and look forward to their to-be-confirmed U.S. debut.dockers.com

Dock of Ages

There are brands that look old and then there are brands that are old. Put Dockers—the brand Levi Strauss introduced in the eighties to consolidate its century-old khaki business—in the latter category. The company is taking strides to bring a little cool in, primarily by drawing on its most valuable asset: a vault's worth of vintage Levi's samples. Its latest heritage collection, shown at Pitti Uomo, is among the best we've seen. These are clothes with long backstories, of the page-turning variety. For example: Work shirts and khakis are made of Galey & Lord twill—a lighter version of the Cramerton cloth developed in 1931 for WWII uniforms—and woven on the original looms. (The lighter version? That's thanks to an official request from the U.S. Quartermaster, who had to deal with the climate of the South Pacific theater.) Trivia like this should make for a great book someday. Until then, we'll just take the clothes themselves, and look forward to their to-be-confirmed U.S. debut.dockers.com